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Swaboda, N., Meder, B., & Ruggeri, A. (2020). Finding the (most efficient) way out of a maze is easier than asking (good) questions. https://psyarxiv.com/tdaqg/
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Meder, B., Mayrhofer, R., & Ruggeri, A. (2020). Developmental trajectories in the understanding of everyday uncertainty terms.
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Fantasia, V., Markant, D., Perri, N. & Ruggeri, A. (2020). Memory enhancements from active control of learning in children mit autism spectrum disorder. Autism. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361320931244
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De Simone, C., & Ruggeri, A. (2020, April 8). What is a good question asker better at? From unsystematic generalization to overgeneralization to adult-like selectivity across childhood.
Jones, A., Swaboda, N., & Ruggeri, A. (2020). Developmental changes in question-asking. In L. P. Butler, S. Ronfard, & K. H. Corriveau (Eds.), The questioning child: Insights from psychology and education (pp. 118–143). Cambridge University Press.
Meder, B., Wu, C. M., Schulz, E., & Ruggeri, A. (2020, April 28). Development of directed and random exploration in children. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/7zhxv
Meder, B., Nelson, J. D., Jones, M., & Ruggeri, A. (2019). Stepwise versus globally optimal search in children and adults. Cognition, 191, Article 103965. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.05.002
decision making
Coenen, A., Ruggeri, A., Bramley, N. R., & Gureckis, T. M. (2019). Testing one or multiple: How beliefs about sparsity affect causal experimentation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45(11), 1923–1941. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000680
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De Simone, C., & Ruggeri, A. (2019). What is a good question asker better at? From no generalization, to overgeneralization, to adults-like selectivity across childhood. In A. K. Goel, C. M. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1613–1619). Cognitive Science Society.
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Musculus, L., Ruggeri, A., Raab, M., & Lobinger, B. (2019). A developmental perspective on option generation and selection. Developmental Psychology, 55(4), 745–753. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000665
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Perri, N., Fantasia, V., Markant, D., De Simone, C., Valeri, G., & Ruggeri, A. (2019). Benefits of active control of study in autistic children. In A. K. Goel, C. M. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 924–930). Cognitive Science Society.
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Ruggeri, A., Markant, D., Gureckis, T. M., Bretzke, M., & Xu, F. (2019). Memory enhancements from active control of learning emerge across development. Cognition, 186, 82–94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.01.010
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Ruggeri, A., Swaboda, N., Sim, Z. L., & Gopnik, A. (2019). Shake it baby, but only when needed: Preschoolers adapt their exploratory strategies to the information structure of the task. Cognition, 193, Article 104013. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104013
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Ruggeri, A., Xu, F., & Lombrozo, T. (2019). Effects of explanation on children's question asking. Cognition, 191, Article 103966. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.05.003
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Schulz, E., Wu, C. M., Ruggeri, A., & Meder, B. (2019). Searching for rewards like a child means less generalization and more directed exploration. Psychological Science, 30(11), 1561–1572. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797619863663
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Bridgers, S., Gweon, H., Bretzke, M., & Ruggeri, A. (2018). How you learned matters: The process by which others learn informs young children's decisions about whom to ask for help. In C. Kalish, M. Rau, J. Zhu, & T. T. Rogers (Eds.), COGSCI 2018: Changing / minds. 40th Annual Cognitive Science Society Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, July 25-28 (pp. 1402–1407). Cognitive Science Society.
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Jones, A., Schulz, E., Meder, B., & Ruggeri, A. (2018). Active function learning. In C. Kalish, M. Rau, J. Zhu, & T. T. Rogers (Eds.), COGSCI 2018: Changing / minds. 40th Annual Cognitive Science Society Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, July 25-28 (pp. 580–585). Cognitive Science Society.
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Ruggeri, A., Luan, S., Keller, M., & Gummerum, M. (2018). The influence of adult and peer role models on children' and adolescents' sharing decisions. Child Development, 89(5), 1589–1598. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12916
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Ruggeri, A., Vagharchakian, L., & Xu, F. (2018). Icon arrays help younger children's proportional reasoning. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 36(2), 313–333. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12233
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Swaboda, N., Ruggeri, A., & Gopnik, A. (2018). Preschoolers adapt their exploratory strategies to the information structure of the task. In C. Kalish, M. Rau, J. Zhu, & T. T. Rogers (Eds.), COGSCI 2018: Changing / minds. 40th Annual Cognitive Science Society Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, July 25-28 (pp. 1102–1107). Cognitive Science Society.
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Vasilyeva, N., Ruggeri, A., & Lombrozo, T. (2018). When and how children use explanations to guide generalizations. In C. Kalish, M. Rau, J. Zhu, & T. T. Rogers (Eds.), COGSCI 2018: Changing / minds. 40th Annual Cognitive Science Society Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, July 25-28 (pp. 2609–2614). Cognitive Science Society.
information search
Coenen, A., Bramley, N., Ruggeri, A., & Gureckis, T. M. (2017). Beliefs about sparsity affect causal experimentation. In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. Davelaar (Eds.), CogSci 2017: Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1788–1793). Cognitive Science Society.
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Musculus, L., Ruggeri, A., Raab, M., & Lobinger, B. (2017). The ecological rationality of children's option generation and decision making. In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. Davelaar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 823–828). Cognitive Science Society.
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Ruggeri, A., Sim, Z. L., & Xu, F. (2017). "Why is Toma late to school again?" Preschoolers identify the most informative questions. Developmental Psychology, 53(9), 1620–1632. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000340
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Horn, S. S., Ruggeri, A., & Pachur, T. (2016). The development of adaptive decision making: Recognition-based inference in children and adolescents. Developmental Psychology, 52(9), 1470–1485. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000181
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Markant, D. B., Ruggeri, A., Gureckis, T. M., & Xu, F. (2016). Enhanced memory as a common effect of active learning. Mind, Brain, and Education, 10(3), 142–152. https://doi.org/10.1111/mbe.12117
McMahon, K., Ruggeri, A., Kämmer, J. E., & Katsikopoulos, K. V. (2016). Beyond idea generation: The power of groups in developing ideas. Creativity Research Journal, 28(3), 247–257. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2016.1195637
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Ruggeri, A., Lombrozo, T., Griffiths, T. L., & Xu, F. (2016). Sources of developmental change in the efficiency of information search. Developmental Psychology, 52(12), 2159–2173. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000240
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Ruggeri, A., Markant, D. B., Gureckis, T. M., & Xu, F. (2016). Active control of study leads to improved recognition memory in children. In A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, & J. C. Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society.
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Ruggeri, A., & Feufel, M. A. (2015). How basic-level objects facilitate question-asking in a categorization task. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, Article 918. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00918
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Ruggeri, A., & Lombrozo, T. (2015). Children adapt their questions to achieve efficient search. Cognition, 143, 203–216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2015.07.004
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Ruggeri, A., Olsson, H., & Katsikopoulos, K. V. (2015). Opening the cuebox: The information children and young adults generate and rely on when making inferences from memory. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 33(3), 355–374. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12100
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Ruggeri, A., Gummerum, M., & Hanoch, Y. (2014). Braving difficult choices alone: Children's and adolescents' medical decision making. PLoS ONE, 9(8), Article e103287. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0103287
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Ruggeri, A., & Lombrozo, T. (2014). Learning by asking: How children ask questions to achieve efficient search. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1335–1340). Cognitive Science Society.
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Bodemer, N., Ruggeri, A., & Galesic, M. (2013). When dread risks are more dreadful than continuous risks: Comparing cumulative population losses over time. PLoS ONE, 8(6), Article e66544. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0066544
Bodemer, N., Ruggeri, A., & Galesic, M. (2013). Why 100 once is worse than 10 times 10: Dread risks versus “continuous” risks. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Cooperative minds: Social interaction and group dynamics. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1923–1927). Cognitive Science Society.
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Ruggeri, A., & Katsikopoulos, K. V. (2013). Make your own kinds of cues: When children make more accurate inferences than adults. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 115(3), 517–535. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2012.11.007
Bodemer, N., & Ruggeri, A. (2012). Finding a good research question, in theory. Science, 335(6075), 1439–1439. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.335.6075.1439-a